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A Revealing Affection
Commentators explain that Isaac was not caught in an act of immorality, but rather in familiar, affectionate playfulness. Abimelech observed gestures like embracing and joking, which he rightly concluded were signs of marital love, not the behavior of a brother and sister. This intimate affection, innocent in itself, is what revealed Isaac's deception.
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Albert Barnes
On Genesis 26:1–35
18th Century
Theologian
משׁמרת mı̂shmeret — “charge, ordinance.”
עשׂק ‛êśeq — Esek, “strife.”
שׂטנה śı̂ṭnâh<…
Charles Ellicott
On Genesis 26:8
19th Century
Bishop
Abimelech. Regarding this title of the Philistine monarchs, see Note on Genesis 21:22. As eighty years had elapsed since Abraham’s…
John Calvin
On Genesis 26:8
16th Century
Theologian
Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looked out at a window. Truly admirable is the kind forbearance of God, in not only condescending to p…
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John Gill
On Genesis 26:8
17th Century
Pastor
And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time
Perhaps some years: for though it is in the original, "when …
Matthew Henry
On Genesis 26:6–11
17th Century
Minister
There is nothing in Isaac's denial of his wife to be imitated, nor even excused. The temptation of Isaac is the same as that which overcame his fat…